It started with my dear wife buying a cold press juicer and adding fruit and veggie juice to her diet. She felt more energetic and healthier from it. She then went on a complete fruit and veggie juice fast and has dropped 4 kg after 6 days - while feeling terrific. She has of course always had a radiant personality, but her skin absolutely glows with the diet. She plans to do this diet for 30 days.

To give her a bit of moral support in her efforts, I started having freshly squeezed orange juice in the mornings. The juice from the cold press juicer was the best tasting juice I have ever had! So, then I started having a bit of vegetable juice as well. Home made veggie juice tastes quite OK and it seems to perk me up a bit.

Not having enough fruit and vegetables in your diet catches up with you as you age. Juicing is by far the most enjoyable way of consuming vegetables. I cannot stomach eating 1 kg of vegetables every day, but drinking 0.5 litres of juice that 1kg would produce is easy to drink (2 glasses).

I picked up a box of navel oranges - 15 kg for $12. That's $0.80 per kilo, and after juicing it is about $1.60 per litre of pure sweet nectar! No mouldy fruit and ground up mice in that juice!

20 kg of good quality carrots - also very sweet - cost $9.

Celery was $24 for a box of 10kg. I hate celery when eaten raw, but juicing it with carrots makes a great drink.

Tomatoes was $16 for 10kg.

I'm hooked! These are great prices for produce that is probably as fresh as the greengrocers get them.

That's a lot of fruit man. Good buying though. I'm guessing that freezing will reduce the vitamin value? Be good if you could freeze it. Crazy business idea #367: Vegetable juice iceblocks. You heard it here first.

My sister tells me Rocklea markets do an excellent line in Waygu beef as well. (if you tire of the veges)

I need to drop a fews pounds so I'd be interested to hear how it goes A.

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regarding juice recipes YouTube is great. In particular is the user account liferegenerator by Dan the Man. I have some of his videos. Very amateurish in quality but his “Green juice Recipes” DVD is awesome for the recipes. But there are plenty of great ones for free on the tube